Women leaders strive to find their voice and get themselves heard. Authentic, talented, hardworking, intelligent, creative women tell me that even when they have their seat at the table, at times, it feels difficult to get their voices heard.
I work with women from industries and cultures where it’s critical that they lift their message and have it be received. This is where the positive change is that is needed in our world.
The women I’ve worked with have clarity around intention, objectives and results. They’ve mastered the work on their language, their mood (open emotions) and their body to strengthen their resolve, their voice and their actions.
There are preparations and practices that create a powerful physical presence in a centered and grounded body with a free, natural resonant voice. Everyone can find this. It’s about projecting your message out to be heard – to land and to resonate. Projection comes from a relaxed, centered body and breath.
To lean in is a verb. We lean in to capture attention, to signal we are ready to speak, to be able to see and get eye contact that we connect with everyone around the table. Get a seat at the table and share the beauty of your intelligence and heartfelt intention. We need this balance to affect positive change in our companies and in the world.
“True emotion rides on the winds of breath and on the sound waves reverberating through the magnifying caverns of the inbuilt resonators of the body. Obviously muscles are strongly involved in the expression of strong impulses – but there is a big difference between emotional energy moving through those muscles and being held in them.” Kristin Linklater – Freeing the Natural Voice
